LG GW990 Preview
Jan 11, 2010 phones
Expected H2 2010 11th Jan 2010
Touting probably the largest blind of any mobile earphone ever, the LG GW990 has been developed by Intel and LG as the vanguard of the next generation of smartphones.
The 4.8" 1024 x 480 pel display is the most immediately obvious feature of the LG GW990, and a consequence this is a really big gimmick, by our reckoning it has a footprint of around 140 x 60mm.
Underneath this is run on the Intel Moorestown chopine, based on the popular Intel Atom processor found on many modern font netbooks. The idea behind using Moorestown in a gimmick like this is to bring no via media, full computing capabilities to a gimmick that volition burst in your pocket.. well, perhaps if you rich person quite big pockets that is.
The LG GW990 runs the Moblin operating organization, a product of the Linux Foundation. Moblin is pitched at products from netbooks to what they call "mobile internet devices", so it is aimed at that market segment between (say) Android on smartphones and Ubuntu on full-blown PCs.
Moblin has been around for long sufficiency to get to variant 2.1, but the Mobile River Garage (their equivalent weight of an App Store) has just 51 applications in at present.. however, those applications do include sophisticated things like AbiWord for word processing, Firefox, the GIMP graphics program and FreeCiv which is a scheme biz.
Although this is a 3.5G HSPA gimmick, LG say that the GW990 chopine tin be extended to include 4G technologies such as LTE, although this obviously would be a different hardware variant.
Other information is pretty sparse – LG haven’t provided any technical specifications, gimmick photographs or anything else we can get our teeth into. There’s no guidance on monetary value either, our guess is that we would be surprised to see much change from Ђ1000 SIM-free and it could be even more than that.
The LG GW990 is slated for release sometime during the second one-half of 2010, we expect to see further details from LG on specifications perhaps as early as next month. We’re also guessing that they volition have a much more sexy epithet than "GW990" lined up for launching as well.
Picture credits: LG / Intel
Intel have provided a couple of video recording clips so that you tin see the LG GW990 in action.
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